Re: [GNUnet-developers] why use cron

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Sunday 07 July 2002 09:01 pm, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Periodically gnunet scans the ~/gnunet/data/hosts/ directory to "learn"
> new hosts that it has discovered.
>
> Why not just "learn" the new hosts as they are discovered ?
>
> It would be simpler as it wouldnt need the code that provides cron like
> functionality in gnunet.
>
> (maybe i misuderstand whats going on)

We are "learning" new hosts as they are discovered. But the user may also copy 
new hosts manually to data/hosts and we still want to learn about those 
entries. That's the motivation behind the cron job. Now that we download a 
hostlist automatically via http on startup this may be a bit outdated. OTOH, 
I don't think it can hurt (and the cron job is not that frequent).

Christian
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